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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

If you're using KDE, it should prompt you if you want to mount the drive automatically.

First, make sure the external drive is on before you plug it in. After plug in, a window should pop up asking you if you would like to open the device in a new window. Just select yes/accept and the drive will be mounted for you.

So manually mount the HD enables me to read the contents inside the hard disk but as root user.

Anyway, learning to mount using root account and make it available to all users is something new i can learn and i'm quite looking forward to the solutions for this issue. So i do not really bother why it cannot automatically detect previously.

Since i'm asking this question, i might as well ask y it prompt this error when i plug in my HD?